2018-2019 Calendar Stoler Early Childhood Education Center Stoler Early Childhood Education Center AUGUST 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Noah’s Ark - Week 7 1 2 3 4
5 Noah’s Ark - Week 8 6 7 8 9 10 Rosh Chodesh Elul 11
12 Noah’s Ark - Week 9 13 14 15 Parent 16 Last Day of 17 18 Orientation Noah’s Ark 7:00-9:00pm
19 SCHOOL CLOSED 20 SCHOOL CLOSED 21 SCHOOL CLOSED 22 SCHOOL CLOSED 23 SCHOOL CLOSED 24 25
Welcome Back 26 Professional 27 Professional 28 1st Day of School 29 30 31 Pool Party Development Day Development Day for all programs Sponsored SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED PS 2s Gradual Entry by Parents’ Associations 4:00–6:00pm
I/T - Infant Toddler “Emily looks forward to going to school every morning and PS+ - Preschool Plus actually gets upset when it is the weekend. Swimming is her PS - Preschool favorite, but she thoroughly enjoys all of the fun activities!” ECEC Event Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center SEPTEMBER 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1
2 Labor Day 3 4 5 Parents’ 6 Parents’ 7 8 Association (PA) Association (PA) SCHOOL CLOSED Open House Open House Breakfast Breakfast Tot Shabbat with PJ Library
Erev Rosh 9 Rosh Hashanah 10 Rosh Hashanah 11 Yom Kippur Food 12 13 Grandparent or 14 15 Hashanah Drive Begins SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Special Person JCC closes early Shabbat 11:15am Grandparents Day
16 Yom Kippur Food 17 Erev Yom Kippur 18 Yom Kippur 19 20 21 22 Drive Ends SCHOOL CLOSES SCHOOL CLOSED AT 12:30pm
Erev Sukkot 23 Sukkot 24 Sukkot 25 26 Parents’ 27 28 29 Association (PA) JCC closes early SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Meeting 5:30-7:30pm Sukkah City
30 I/T - Infant Toddler “Both of my kids in Noah’s Ark seem to love going to PS+ - Preschool Plus camp and seem happy to go. They both talk about the PS - Preschool activities at home too. The staff, counselors and TNTs ECEC Event are great!” Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center OCTOBER 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Shemini Atzereth 1 Simchat Torah 2 3 4 Tot Shabbat 5 6 SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED with PJ Library
Emily Arrow 7 Kids Stuff 8 Rosh Chodesh 9 Back to School 10 11 12 13 The Gordon Center Fundraiser Begins Cheshvan Night Columbus Day 7:30pm
Associated Super 14 3s Farm Field Trip 15 3s Farm Field Trip 16 17 18 19 20 Sunday Kids Stuff Fundraiser Due
Biscuit 21 22 23 24 Picture Day 25 Picture Day 26 27 The Gordon Center
28 29 30 31
I/T - Infant Toddler “She loves coming to school/camp every day. We can tell she is PS+ - Preschool Plus learning as well as having fun. We look forward to great pictures and PS - Preschool updates about her day through Tadpoles. The teachers are wonderful ECEC Event and welcome us as a part of the early childhood community.” Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center NOVEMBER 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Tot Shabbat 2 3 with PJ Library
BSO Music Box 4 5 4s Trip to the 6 7 Rosh Chodesh 8 Princess and 9 10 Series Walters Art Kislev Pirate Dress Up The Gordon Center Museum Baltimore Festival Day of Jewish Literature Begins 11/8-11/18
The JCC and CJE 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 present Story Pirates The Gordon Center
18 19 Our ECEC 20 Professional Day 21 Thanksgiving 22 SCHOOL CLOSED 23 24 Thanksgiving SCHOOL CLOSED SCHOOL CLOSED Feast
Cirquetacular 25 Dreidel Shop 26 Dreidel Shop 27 Dreidel Shop 28 Dreidel Shop 29 In School Field 30 The Gordon Center Begins Trip Olive Oil Factory
I/T - Infant Toddler “My child has greatly enjoyed attending Noah’s Ark Camp. We really PS+ - Preschool Plus enjoy the weekly themed events/activities and the extensive pool PS - Preschool time. They are always excited, engaged and enjoying new activities.” ECEC Event Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center DECEMBER 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1
1st Night of 2 2nd Night of 3 3rd Night of 4 4th Night of 5 5th Night of 6 6th Night of 7 7th Night of 8 Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah Chanukah at Schoolwide Latke In School Light Tot Shabbat Rosh ChodeshTevet Foundry Row Tasting Museum with PJ Library Chanukah In School Light Wonderland in PH Museum 8th Night of 9 Mt. Washington 10 11 12 13 14 15 Chanukah Pediatric Toy Maccabeats Drive Begins Concert The Gordon Center
16 Mt. Washington 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pediatric Toy Drive Ends
23 I/T and PS+ Open 24 Christmas Day 25 I/T and PS+ Open 26 I/T and PS+ Open 27 I/T and PS+ Open 28 29 PRESCHOOL SCHOOL CLOSED PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
New Years Eve 30 31 I/T - Infant Toddler “The teachers are professionals who create a warm and inviting I/T and PS+ Open PS+ - Preschool Plus environment that allows my children to feel safe and be ready PRESCHOOL PS - Preschool to learn. The program is individualized and incorporates a CLOSED ECEC Event great mix of being creative and progressive, but is also very Community Event structured. The children have a full and enriched schedule that keep them engaged throughout the day.” – Jeri Stoler Early Childhood Education Center JANUARY 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday New Year’s Day 1 2 3 Tot Shabbat 4 5 SCHOOL CLOSED with PJ Library
6 Rosh Chodesh 7 8 9 Otto the Auto in 10 Parent/Teacher 11 12 Shevat school field trip Conferences SCHOOL CLOSED
Summer in the 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Snow
20 Tu B’Shevat 21 22 23 24 25 26 MLK Jr. Day SCHOOL CLOSED
27 28 29 30 31
I/T - Infant Toddler “Everyday we see pictures of my daughter trying new things! She has PS+ - Preschool Plus become so independent! I’m impressed with how much knowledge PS - Preschool she is coming home with. She loves making progress and ‘going in the ECEC Event big pool,’ and she talks a lot about what she has learned in nature and Community Event healthy choices.” – Tova J. Stoler Early Childhood Education Center FEBRUARY 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Tot Shabbat 1 Groundhog’s Day 2 with PJ Library
Parents’ 3 4 Rosh Chodesh 5 6 7 8 9 Association Adar Take Over: Happy Glaze Ceramics
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 Presidents Day 18 19 20 21 22 23 Professional Development Day SCHOOL CLOSED
Laurie Berkner 24 Scholastic Book 25 Scholastic Book 26 Scholastic Book 27 Scholastic Book 28 Scholastic Book 1 Band Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair The Gordon Center Pajama Party
I/T - Infant Toddler “We couldn’t have picked a better place for Zev! He has so many PS+ - Preschool Plus opportunities to explore, create, learn, and have fun!” – Ayala PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center MARCH 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Read Across 1 Dr. Seuss’s Birthday 2 America Storybook Character Day Tot Shabbat with PJ Library 3 National School 4 5 6 Rosh Chodesh 7 8 9 Breakfast Week Adar II
Hamantaschen 10 Professional 11 12 13 14 15 16 Make and Development Day Takeover SCHOOL CLOSED
Purim Palooza 17 18 19 Baby and Me 20 Purim 21 22 23 in Park Heights Hamantaschen Costume Day and Make and Take Purim Parade 10:00am
24 Savers Fundraiser 25 26 27 28 29 30 Begins
Savers Drop Off 31 I/T - Infant Toddler “The teachers are fabulous, and care so much about the children’s Day PS+ - Preschool Plus happiness and well-being. Natan has such a wonderful time playing PS - Preschool with the other kids and participating in arts, music, and other ECEC Event activities. I get detailed reports on meals, naps, and any relevant daily Community Event issues, and I’m very happy we picked the JCC.” Passover Passover
Stoler Early Childhood Education Center APRIL 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Tot Shabbat 5 Rosh Chodesh 6 with PJ Library Nisan
7 8 9 3s and 4s visit the 10 3s and 4s visit the 11 3s and 4s visit the 12 13 Matzah Bakery Matzah Bakery Matzah Bakery
BSO Music Box 14 NAEYC’s Week of 15 3s and 4s 16 2s Passover 17 18 Erev Passover 19 Passover 20 Series the Young Child Model Seder Experience SCHOOL CLOSES The Gordon AT 12:30pm Center
Passover 21 Passover 22 Passover 23 Passover 24 Passover 25 Passover 26 Passover 27 I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open I/T and PS+ Open SCHOOL CLOSED PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
28 4s Pearlstone 29 4s Pearlstone 30 Field Trip Field Trip
I/T - Infant Toddler “Exposure to Nature & Gardening and healthy choices has engaged PS+ - Preschool Plus my toddler and increased awareness to the world around him! Getting PS - Preschool the kids involved in so many engaging specials keepings them active ECEC Event & loving school! My son is a more confident swimmer, the staff have Community Event been friendly & we are already seeing my son’s confidence shine!” Stoler Early Childhood Education Center MAY 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Yom HaShoah 2 Tot Shabbat 3 4 with PJ Library
Rosh Chodesh 5 6 7 Yom Hazikaron 8 Yom Ha’atzmaut 9 Special Person 10 11 Iyyar Teacher Happy Birthday School wide Shabbat Appreciation Week Israel 11:15am In School trip to Israel
Mother’s Day 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 Lag B’Omer 23 24 25
26 Memorial Day 27 28 End of Year Family 29 30 31 SCHOOL CLOSED Picnic
I/T - Infant Toddler “My toddler loves all of the specials and extracurriculars they get PS+ - Preschool Plus at the J. Especially instructional swim and music. He pretend plays PS - Preschool guitar at home now, and this is new.” ECEC Event Community Event Stoler Early Childhood Education Center JUNE 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1
6th Annual 2 3 Rosh Chodesh Sivan 4 5 6 Tot Shabbat 7 Erev Shavuot 8 Community with PJ Library Block Party Join us for our final Kabbalat Shabbat of the year!
Shavuot 9 Shavuot 10 11 12 Last Day of 13 Professional Day 14 15 SCHOOL CLOSED School SCHOOL CLOSED
Father’s Day 16 First Day of 17 18 19 20 21 22 Noah’s Ark Camp
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 I/T - Infant Toddler “The JCC has become our second home and a PS+ - Preschool Plus place my children and I enjoy coming to.” PS - Preschool ECEC Event Community Event JEWISH HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year A group of rebel Jews, the Maccabees, fought Passover is the first of the three pilgrim that falls on the first of the Hebrew month the Greeks and succeeded in winning back festivals. In Israel, Passover is the seven-day of Tishrei. Its observances include synagogue their land. They went back to their holy temple holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, attendance where the shofar is blown, a festive only to find that the Greeks had almost with the first and last days observed as legal meal with traditional foods such as fish, carrots, completely destroyed it. Once they cleansed holidays and as holy days involving abstention a round challah and apples and honey. the temple, they were ready to light the from work, special prayer services, and holiday temple’s menorah. To their dismay, they found meals; the intervening days are known as Chol that there was enough oil to last only one HaMoed (“Weekdays of the Festival”). Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, day. They lit the menorah anyway, and to their is considered to be the holiest day of the amazement, the oil lasted for eight whole Jewish year. Its observances include 25-hour days, until more pure oil could be found. Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, and Yom fast, synagogue services, the wearing of Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day, are special white clothing, and the abstention of wearing days commemorating events in the national leather. The solemn day is ushered in with a Shevat is the rainy season in Israel. It is the history of the State of Israel. We become special service called “Kol Nidre” in which a time when trees begin to form buds that will one large family as we remember those who representative of the congregation pleads eventually blossom and lead to the growth fell in order that we might have a state. The with God to release the congregants from of fruit. And so it was that our rabbis at the month of Iyar provides us with an opportunity all vows that they failed to keep. The liturgy time of the Second Temple decreed that the to reconnect to the Land of Israel as we think focuses on personal change, confession of fifteenth day of the month of Shevat would be of the special varieties of the land and their wrongdoings, and asking God for forgiveness. called the New Year of Trees, TU B’SHEVAT. connection to the holidays that bracket the It was really more of a New Year for the tax month of Iyar (Pesach and Shavuot) as well collector. It was the date used to determine as the celebration of the birth and existence Sukkot, the Jewish harvest holiday, falls how much a person’s tithe would be. Farmers of the State of Israel and the radiance and five days after the Yom Kippur. The holiday and landowners were to give one tenth of splendor of Jerusalem - Yerushalayim. commemorates the days when the Hebrew their trees’ produce. people lived in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt and celebrates the end of Shavuot is the Hebrew word for weeks. The the fall harvest. Its customs include dwelling Adar is one of the happiest months in the holiday takes place seven weeks after the in a temporary hut for one week, shaking the Jewish calendar, and not only because the second day of Passover. It is one of the three “four species”, and rejoicing and being happy holiday of Purim falls within this month. major pilgrimage festivals (the other two are in the holiday. The Rabbis say that “When Adar enters, we Pesach and Sukkot) and has both historical and increase joyfulness.” (Babylonian Talmud agricultural significance. Ta’anit 29a.) Chanukah occurs on the 25th of the Hebrew month of Kislev, which typically coincides with Tisha B’Av commemorates the many late November/early December on the secular Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates disasters that have befallen the Jewish people calendar. A long way back, around 165-168 the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, throughout history. B.C.E. to be exact, King Antiochus, Syrian- who was planning to kill all the Jews. This Greek emperor of the land, made Judaism a took place in the ancient Achaemenid Persian crime punishable by death. He kicked the Jews Empire. The story is recorded in the Biblical out of their land, destroyed their holy temple, Book of Esther. and tried making them worship Greek idols. Needless to say, the Jews would not take this lying down. IMPORTANT CONTACTS
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